LIKENESS ARTISTS BIOGRAPHIES   ANDREW BALFOUR Andrew was born in Ottawa in 1962 & has been working as a professional photographer for 25 years. A graduate of Algonquin College Photography Program, Andrew has been teaching photography part-time there for the past five years. A belief in life long learning has led him to study in workshops from Maine to California. Andrew owns a studio in the Glebe, specializing in portraits & events. He has shown work in several group shows & one solo show.   DAVID BARBOUR David Barbour studied photography at the Banff School of Fine Arts in (1973-1976) and has worked as a photographer, photo-editor, curator and teacher. His career has been a balance of assignments and personal projects, highlights of which include: A World Press Award in 1986, and and a Mid-Career Canada Council Grant to continue his personal work in Havana, Cuba in 2000. David recently photographed the September 2005 feature story The Valley for Canadian Geographic and one of his photographs from Havana is featured in the 2006 Magenta Foundation publication, Carte Blanche which surveys contemporary Canadian photography. www.davidbarbour.com   MATT CARRINGTON Matt Carrington started taking photos while living in Egypt mainly because it was a good excuse to run toward the smoke and noise. This put him in the middle of anti-war riots and pro-democracy demonstrations for a couple of years, during which time his photos appeared in American, European and Egyptian newspapers and magazines. He went to Iraq in 2007 to document the lives of refugees and the struggles of civil society in the north. He returned to Iraq late in 2008 on assignment to photograph American forces and Iraqi groups in Salahadin province and Baghdad. He is currently working on a personal project in Ottawa.   BRANDON CLARIDA Brandon is an Ottawa based photographer and SPAO graduate who believes in personal vision, and as such has developed his own working style based on colour and subtle manipulation. His unique aesthetic is a product of both in-camera and digital post-production techniques. Brandon works as a photographic post-production consultant and instructor of part-time studies at SPAO. His most recent work can be best described as situational portraiture. Rejecting a more literal documentary style, his perspective becomes the subject of his images in a type of photographic impressionism. The resulting photographs evoke the vagueness of memory and the fleeting nature of time, all with a subtlety and simplicity inherent in Brandon's photographic approach.   JOHN CONWAY I bought my first camera a couple of years after moving to Saskatoon in 1973 to teach psychology at The University of Saskatchewan. It was the prairie--the land, sky and light-- that lured me out of the city to look and make pictures. The next year I took a "how to" course at The Photographers Gallery in Saskatoon. Our homework after the first class was to walk around our blocks and take a roll of slides. The next class, our teacher showed one of my slides on the big screen, for about five minutes, asking us to look and to free associate. I'd never looked at a picture, nor free associated, for five full minutes. Since then I've looked at a lot of photographs. I owe a debt to many remarkable photographers that showed me how they see the world. In photographing the Saskatchewan prairie over many years, I came to see the world there quite clearly. Since leaving Saskatchewan in 2007, my vision has been less clear. Still, I persist. Searching for more of the personal in my photographs.   JOËL CÔTÉ-CRIGHT Joël is not a photographer. He is a human being and takes photographs or people that live in this world. He likes to photograph those who work hard and play outside. Joël likes exchange of ideas and to talk about those he photographs rather than the photographic equipment he uses.   CLIVE CRETNEY All of Clive Cretney’s photography explores the innovative ways of using a medium in constant evolution. His work looks beyond photography’s traditional forms and incorporates innovative ways of reinterpreting time and space. This fascination with photographic technology has lead to projects investigating obsolete and antiquated processes. Through a series of themes he expands the essence of these technique and with a modern eye adds his own visual vocabulary. The images seek to question our reliance on past imagery and challenge our view on contemporary issues.   MAGIDA EL-KASSIS Magida El-Kassis was born and raised in Nepean Ontario, in 2001 she moved to Richmond Ontario where she currently lives. Fairly new to photography, Magida began her schooling at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa during the year of 2008, where she currently continues to study. Magida El-Kassis’s work has been exhibited in Ottawa, and is in private collections throughout Canada.   TONY FOUHSE Tony Fouhse is an Ottawa based photographer.  He has a thriving editorial and commercial practice. He also spends much of his time producing personal projects, which are almost exclusively about producing portraits of people he meets on the street.  He has photographed strangers from the deserts of California to small town Mississippi to crack addicts on Ottawa streets. To view a portfolio of his work, please visit www.tonyfoto.com   JOHN HOBIN Jonathan Hobin is an Ottawa-born art director, photographer and prop stylist who creates iconic images based on the obscure literary, cinematic and historical references that inspire him. Hobin’s photographic approach is considered unusual, preferring to work as both the art director and photographer. While Hobin’s colour work is often elaborate, vibrant and whimsical, his black and white pieces are more intimate and subdued. Jonathan Hobin has also made a name for himself in the Ottawa film community. He has worked as the art director for more than a dozen American made-for-TV movies as well as a number of Canadian productions. His work has been featured in numerous national magazines and his art direction credits include films for Bravo, the CBC and Lifetime Channel (U.S.A.). Hobin’s most recent exhibition at Ottawa’s Dale Smith Gallery was critically acclaimed and the work was featured in many publications in Ottawa and Toronto such as The Ottawa Citizen, The Ryersonian, Guerilla Magazine and was the March 2009 cover story of Capital XTRA .   IAN JAMES HOPKINS Ian James Hopkins is a contemporary photographer who is situated out of Barrie, Ontario. His photographs regularly feature dark humour and grimy formalism. They are often extensions of how he views the world as well as himself and the people around him. Ian has funded his studies at various institutions through independent photography and post-production contracts. He graduated from SPAO with honors in the spring of 2008 and works as a freelance photographer specializing in portraiture.   ROB HUGHES Rob Hughes saw the magic of photography with his first trip to the darkroom when he was seven years old and has never lost the wonder. He has trained in school, but for the most part we learn by doing. This published writer/photographer has been involved in social action for many years with organizations the world over. From refugee issues in India to poverty and homelessness here in Ottawa, Rob has given his time and images to promote positive change. As an instructor he educates youth on the power of the camera as a tool for positive social change. He is one of the founding students of the School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa and is currently the Coordinator of Part Time Studies at the school.   PEDRO ISZTIN Pedro Isztin’s work is a testament to the human spirit, where external and internal borders are crossed and experiences shared. “If analysis with a camera lens is also an analysis of the human spirit, Pedro Isztin has succeeded in drawing, with technique and originality, the profile of his subjects’ souls.” (Daniela Mascella, Image Inside. Rome, Italy, June/July 1993) Born in 1964 to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father, Isztin lives in Ottawa, Canada. The originality of Pedro’s photographic work reflects the richness of his diverse heritage through which he explores and reveals. Portraits, nudes and environmental landscapes lend themselves to the universal truths Pedro uncovers and discovers, with diversity and depth as continuous themes in his work. Pedro exhibits in galleries and public spaces in Canada and abroad. He has received various awards to support the creation of his projects and his work is represented in the permanent collection of the Canada Council Art Bank. www.isztinfoto.com   JOY KARDISH Joy Kardish studied photography while a student at the University of Ottawa in the 1970's.  After raising her family she came back to photography.  Joy's photo based work is shown exclusively at the Dale Smith Gallery.   MAGGIE KNAUS Maggie Knaus is a professional photographer and artist originally from Washington, DC. Her favorite topic is documenting her children and her extensive travels, using many non-traditional photographic processes in her work. She is a photo teacher (in Ottawa at SPAO and OSA), a commercial photographer (for the White House Historical Association, and many stock agencies), and an artist (with shows in galleries across the US). In Ottawa, she has shown at the Bruyère Gallery and at La Petit Mort Gallery.   KARINA KRAENZLE Karina Kraenzle began her studies in photography in 1989 at the San Francisco Art Institute. She currently combines various media with original and found photography. Her subject matter, more often than not, is photography itself – its relationship to time and memory, and its unique ability to construct certain fictions and uncertain truths. Over the last few years, Karina’s work has been exhibited at Ottawa Art Rental and Sales Gallery, The Ottawa School of Art Gallery, Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, La Petite Mort Gallery, Cube Gallery, L’Imagier Gallery , SPAO, X Festival and Toronto’s Contact Photography Festival. She is currently represented in Ottawa by La Petite Mort Gallery, and is a member of the artist collective Blink. www.artengine.ca/kraenzle   AISLINN LEGGETT Aislinn was born in 1981, and grew up on a small farm in Namur, Quebec, Canada. At the age of 17, she moved to Montreal, where she now lives and works on her photography projects. Aislinn trains her camera on the joy and transience of daily life. It is the love for the subtle and the narrative of the everyday that inspires her. Her work focuses on capturing nuance and ritual, and distilling, with sensitivity, a sense of people's relationship between personal and open spaces. Since 2004, Aislinn has been exhibiting in Quebec, Montreal, Ontario and the United States. Recent publications include: Eight Seconds, The Quebec Rodeos in Burn Magazine. I Am A Tourist was featured in The Morning News and Applied Arts Magazine featured her work for their issue on emerging photographers in Canada. In 2008, the Quebec Council of the Arts awarded a grant for her Lost Faces project. Aislinn is currently working on The Last Sacrifice of Rite, a project focusing on priests and the Catholic community in rural areas across Quebec. Aislinn is also editor and blogger at Slightly Lucid, a visual arts and photography blog: www.slightlylucid.com Aislinn is currently completing a BFA in a major in photography at Concordia University. You can view additional information, works and news on her website and blog at www.aislinnleggett.com   MARTIN LIPMAN Martin Lipman is an Ottawa-based commercial photographer with a focus on culture, the arts and natural history. In 2007 and 2008, Martin documented the discovery of Puijila darwini, a 24 million-year-old missing link mammal found in the Canadian High Arctic. He is a contributor to numerous award winning projects, including a Black Book AR 100 for the best annual reports of the year, and recently he had multiple winning entries in the 2009 CAPIC EXPOSE show, a collection of 50 images by Canadian Photographers.    KIMBERLY MALYSHEFF Kimberly Malysheff studied photography at Langara College in Vancouver after spending many years working in theatre, video and indie film production. She is mostly a self-taught photographer preferring to work in alternative and experimental processes. Current works focus primarily on photographs on metal and glass. Photography has taught her to meld curiosity and resourcefulness to develop a unique approach to photographic arts.   ANGELINA MCCORMICK After graduating from Carleton University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics, Angelina McCormick began her career as a full-time stay-at-home mom. Still yearning for more, Angelina enrolled with The School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa in 2005 and successfully completed the fulltime program in May 2006 with highest Honours. Under the guidance of Michael Tardioli, Khalia Scott and Martin Lipman – Angelina found the part of her that was missing and now enjoys her new art practice. Currently, Angelina is working on three projects: The Artificial Botanical, Transcendental Beauty and The Designated Voyeur. In The Artificial Botanical, Angelina is exploring how we are drawn to representations of nature but move farther from understanding ourselves as a part of nature through a still life series of artificial flowers. Transcendental Beauty is a series of female portraits in which the models are emerging from the same heavy blanket – beautiful, honest and strong – not jaded by the pressures of the media or culture. In The Designated Voyeur, Angelina examines voyeurism in photography. Angelina McCormick’s art can be viewed through La Petite Mort Gallery, here in Ottawa and also through the Agora Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Angelina’s art is about the exploration of truth and the constant desire to learn.   AMANDA MEEHAN Amanda Meehan was born in Ottawa in 1989. Since she was young, she has found solace in artistic forms of self-expression, ranging from charcoal illustrations and sculpture to painting and crafts. Over the years, her tastes began to shift more towards capturing the environment around her. She received her first point and shoot at age twelve, and began to experiment with composition. Once enrolled in high school, her talent and interest in photography flourished. It was at age 16 that she decided to become a photographer. Since then, she has done commissioned work for insurance purposes, event documenting, live musical performances, commissioned portraits and nudes as well as many personal projects. Her work is on display in private collections, online groups, yearbooks and The Red Wall Gallery.   ROZEMARIJN OUDEJANS Rozemarijn Oudejans is a Dutch photographer and graphic artist, living and working in Ottawa since 2005. She was educated at the University of Utrecht and the Arnhem Academy of Art and Design in The Netherlands, and in Canada at the School of the Photographic Arts Ottawa and the Ottawa School of Art. In 2007 she received the Justine Bromiley Memorial Scholarship at the Ottawa School of Art for her photography and printmaking work. Rozemarijn is an active member of the Ottawa School of Art and Arts Ottawa East. Her works have been exhibited in Canada and The Netherlands and can be found in private collections internationally. www.rozemarijnoudejans.com   ERIN RILEY I am intensely curiosity about people and interested in the masks we wear obscuring the details that make us who we are. I am still amazed by the power of the camera. A power bestowed upon it by subjects in front of the lens. It is the power of acceptance, permission to come in, to get close, to stare, to linger. In this power resides the promise of the photograph – the promise of truth, of revelation, of understanding. Finding the universal in the specific has become an underlying theme in my work and portraiture has become the cornerstone of my photographic practice. I have recently begun to explore the power of portraiture as a documentary tool, and have started to explore and push the boundaries of what is a portrait. www.fotographer.ca   JOSEPH JEREMIE ROY Born in Summerside, PEI, in 1972, Jeremie spent his early years in the Maritimes learning to be an Acadian. A degree in Dramatic Literature from Mount Allison University didn't hold him back, however, as Jeremie soon became a world traveller and semi-professional vagabond. Included in his many experiences he has been an assayer in Vancouver, a spear fisher in Uqsuqtuq, a chicken farmer in Armstrong Brook, a movie extra in Seoul, a wreck diver in Bali, and a visiting professor in Busan. Jeremie returned to Canada in 2007 to pursue his career in commercial and fine art photography. Jeremie is well versed in traditional and digital photographic practice. His experience includes both field and studio work. As a freelance editorial photographer, Jeremie has done work with some of Ontario's leading publications, including work for Ottawa Magazine, Guerilla Magazine, and most recently on a national scale with Homemakers Magazine and Canadian Home Workshop. When not on assignment, Jeremie can be found in the studio and the darkroom, working to perfect his passion, traditional photographic process. He resurrects cameras relegated to the mantle piece, he relishes in the silver reduction print, he makes his own film, and he is always looking back to see where the tradition of photography might lead him.   MICHAEL SCHREIER Michael Schreier, Professional Artist, Photographer’s current work includes the artist published trilogy, Tears for an Empty Desert, The Shaman’s Witness, Storyteller/Waiting for Words and the preparation of the exhibition, Vienna Interiors/Disappearing Numbers, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, October 2008, and Storyteller/Waiting for Words, solo exhibition curated by Emily Falvey, Ottawa Art Gallery 2009. Michael Schreier is represented by Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario. Representation: National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, National Archives Photography Collection, Agnes-Etherington Art Centre, Canadian Portrait Gallery, Visual Studies Workshop,( Rochester, New York ), Light Work Workshop, Syracuse, New York, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa Art Gallery.   SARAI STRIKEFOOT Sarai Strikefoot is an artist, a writer and photographer. She grew up in Ottawa, Ontario where she began to be inspired by images, words and picked up her first camera. She chased her love for creating to The School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa where she began to understand her role as an artist. She has created portraits of well-known members of the art community in Ottawa and is commissioned to create images alike.   MICHAEL TARDIOLI For almost 20 years, Michael Tardioli has been a professional, award-winning photographer in the Ottawa region. During this time he developed new techniques in printmaking to enhance the presence of black and white photographs. The success of these techniques was made evident by the numerous prestigious commissions he received. Clients included such public figures as Mitchell Sharp, Margaret Trudeau, and Roberta Bondar, among many others. During this time a reputation developed that led to acquisitions of his work for public and permanent display at the National Archives, the National Arts Centre, and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario; the latter resulting in a published book of fine-art children’s portraiture. The success he experienced as a portrait photographer has led to two different and significant directions in his career: the development of his teaching skills and commercial photography incorporating elevated production values. Significant clients he has worked with include the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Canadian Museum of Nature. His digital work has also been recognized, notably through receipt of the 2003 Canadian Applied Arts Award for his unpublished photograph of singer/songwriter Kathleen Edwards. Tardioli’s teaching career began in 2000 when he was first approached to teach a Continuing Education course in Black and White Photography at Algonquin College. In 2005 Michael co-founded SPAO to create an intensive photographic experience for those seeking to hone their skills or pursue an artistic or professional photographic practice.   GENEVIEVE THAUVETTE Geneviève Thauvette studied Fine Arts at Montreal's Concordia University and graduated from Algonquin College's Photography program.  She has been named 'The Most Intriguing Artistic Discovery of 2008' by the Ottawa Citizen and has been selected to represent Canada this fall at the Francophie Games in Beirut.    MICHELLE WILSON Originally envisioning herself as a painter, Michelle Wilson found her true calling when exposed to the alchemy of the darkroom.  She was immediately ensnared by photography. While pursuing her BFA at the University of Ottawa, Michelle developed the underpinnings of her conceptual practice. At the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa she cultivated a fulfilling workflow that encompasses set design, photography and involved digital post-production. Michelle's work dealing with memory, loss and love has received funding through the Council for the Arts Ottawa as well as affording her the opportunity to represent Canada at last year’s photography festival in Arles, France.  Currently she continues to produce art in the Ottawa area.   GREG ZENHA Greg Zenha is a classically trained photographer and alumni of the School of the Photograpic Arts: Ottawa. He shoots primarily with 8x10 and 11x14 cameras. His work has been said to float somewhere between conceptual thought and reality. Greg now resides in Montreal, QC where his studio is located.